[Adium-devl] Some discussed preference changes

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:51 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>>> Note 1: General is the first preference pane in the toolbar to  
>>> match all other OS X apps.
>>>
>> General first is common.. however, Accounts its a pretty important  
>> pane.  Is there an HIG expectation that General be first, or is  
>> this just a generic consistency thing?
> It's a generic consistency thing because we are the only app I  
> could find that doesn't have General as the first pane. Given that  
> Accounts is rarely (after initial use) hit, especially with the  
> Personal pane, and that we remember the last pane, order is not  
> heavily important but consistency is.
Okay - thinking it over, most of the Accounts pane usage is now  
available or superseded elsewhere: Personal pane, as you mentioned,  
plus enable/disable control via the menus.

>>> Note 2: the image view + button is replaced by the contact list's  
>>> snazzy icon selector instead
>> I like.  I think we should give it a border, or a recessed well,  
>> or something, to set it off from the area around it -- basically  
>> look a lot like it does in current source, except making use of  
>> the recent pics selector.
> Well, the button should stay gone :) making the hover effect be the  
> permanent effect for that well would be good IMO.
By 'the permanent effect', do you mean that it should always look the  
way the contact list's icon does when hovered?  I'm not sure that  
would add much, if so -- I like a control which is going to do  
something when clicked but not depress (as a traditional button does)  
highlighting in some way on hover.  Please elaborate.

> The reason I switched these was to save room and provide a bit of  
> clarity, since group boxes should be used sparingly for  
> distinguishing distinct groups of controls. In this case it's not  
> that the 2 parts are that distinct, it's that they are different  
> types (image versus text) The vertical separator provides the  
> logical break while not overwhelming the feel to draw such focus on  
> those text fields.
Good argumentation.  Point ceded. :)

-Evan

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